<persName ref="prs:stamp_e"><surname>Stamp</surname>, <forename>Edward</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:carnarvon"><surname>Carnarvon</surname>, </persName> 20 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 4298, 656. Stamp addressee Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)

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Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (2).

Stamp resumes his application for a contract to run a regular mail service between British Columbia and San Francisco and asks the Colonial Office to press this matter to a prompt and favourable decision.

The minutes Copy to the Treasury.

 Stamp, Edward
4, Mansion House Place, London
Carnarvon, Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed". Changed idno @type="received" into a date element. Gave existing date an @type="sent" and reordered bibl contents.
Stamp to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) 4298, CO 60/6, p. 656; registered 23 April
4, Mansion House Place, London
20th April 1859 To The Right Honorable The Earl of Carnarvon Under Secretary of State for the Colonies &c &c &c My Lord,

I beg again to trouble your Lordship on the subject of the Postal Contract between British Columbia and San Francisco. I arrived in this Country 1st February last for the purpose of endeavouring to carry out this undertaking.

My sole detention at present is in the hopes, and expectation, of being able to secure the Postal Contract between British Columbia and San Francisco in terms of my tender and to which I was led to believe I should receive a favorable reply early this month, for the conditions as originally stated therein were modified and amended to meet the views of the authorities, from whose expressions I gathered, without being binding upon them, that, with the exception of a matter of etiquette with the United States Post Office, my offer would be acceptable and myself and friends considered responsible and competent for the fulfilment of the Contract. May I beg not simply in my own name, but in thatthat of the Colony whose important interests are in the meantime so much neglected and injured by want of regular Mail Communication that you will kindly press this matter to a prompt and favorable decision.

I have the honor to be My Lord Your Obedient humble servt Edwdwould Stamp
Copy to Treasury, and request to know, with reference to the correspondence which has passed on this subject, what ansr it will be proper to return to Mr Stamp.

There wdwould seem to have been some discussions with Mr Stamp at the T-y or G.P. Office on this matter the purport of which is unknown to this Office.

ABd 23 April TFE 23/4
Annex draft as proposed. C Apl 25